3D Carbon Fiber creations for giant scale !

[C-C-Carbon_Chemist]

Hello all,

I want to thank everyone for the warm welcome as I joined the site yesterday. I will start off by posting a few items of my past work with carbon fiber and then some of my current projects.

Here is a photo from a few years ago in which I made a light-ply laminate with carbon 2x2 weave for a Seiko servo in a CARF super Xtra.

Remember the stupid little drama that arose over some of the first Futaba receivers overheating and shutting off? ....fixed that with this little air vent. LOL

GM

 

[C-C-Carbon_Chemist]

Here is a project I have paused on for a while, but basically...remove the old, chunky motorbox, make a nice thin strong one, do a lot of cutting and shaping and the new box is magnitudes more stiff and about half the weight.

GM

 

[Terryscustom]

Very very cool!

 

[C-C-Carbon_Chemist]

My current project however took a new turn in composites....when I was working on the plane pictured above I realized that I would not have nice carbon wheel pants to accompany it. They seem to be hard to come by and are not easy to make so I began trialing several methods to vacuum bag and or infuse them. First came the plug, then the molds....

GM

 

[C-C-Carbon_Chemist]

The molds pictured above are not the ones I ended up using as I had to modify them after trial and error. The wheel pants will have a more streamlined and teardrop shape to them than many that come with today's kits and I will use 2x2 or even 4x4 twill fabric. I hope the new molds can last long enough to make wheel pants for all my planes and any other members here who would might like some for their 35-40% planes.

I understand this is a build-forum so, will start a new thread in the vendor's section soon so I can post updates and picture of the finished wheel pants.

GM

 

[Jetpainter]

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The molds pictured above are not the ones I ended up using as I had to modify them after trial and error. The wheel pants will have a more streamlined and teardrop shape to them than many that come with today's kits and I will use 2x2 or even 4x4 twill fabric. I hope the new molds can last long enough to make wheel pants for all my planes and any other members here who would might like some for their 35-40% planes.

I understand this is a build-forum so, will start a new thread in the vendor's section soon so I can post updates and picture of the finished wheel pants.

GM

Very cool! I have a set of carbon fiber pants on my Areoworks Extra and I really like the look.

 

[Alky6]

Wow! Very, very impressive!! Really like the simple and elegant way to make the small vent.

 

[pawnshopmike]

Cool stuff Gabe! Thanks for sharing.

 

[ericb]

Looks amazing. Thanks for sharing.

 

[SleepyC]

SA_WHEEET!